Writing on the wall for ‘alternative coalition’
Mr McDowell, in the harshest political speech of this Dáil term, said the only conclusion that could be taken from recent opinion polls that the next government would be Fianna Fáil-led and that a Fine Gael-led coalition was “rapidly becoming a computational impossibility”.
He said that its strategists may predict an overall majority for Fine Gael but added that nothing was “as eloquent” as Mr Mitchell’s decision not to contest the election.
